{"product_id":"writing-surfaces-selected-fiction-of-john-riddell-paperback","title":"Writing Surfaces: Selected Fiction of John Riddell - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDerek Beaulieu\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eLori Emerson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJohn Riddell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWriting Surfaces\u003c\/i\u003e, derek beaulieu and Lori Emerson present a collection of John Riddell's work. Riddell's poems and short stories are a remarkable mix of largely typewriter-based concrete poetry mixed with fiction and drawings. Riddell's oeuvre fell out of popular attention, but it has recently garnered interest among poets and critics engaged with media studies (especially studies of the typewriter) and experimental writing. \u003cbr\u003e Riddell is best known for his short fiction pieces \"H\" and \"Pope Leo: El Elope,\" a pair of graphic fictions written in collaboration with, or dedicated to, bpNichol. However, his work moves well beyond comic strips into a series of radical fictions. \u003cbr\u003e Riddell's work embraces game play, unreadability and illegibility, procedural work, non-representational narrative, photocopy degeneration, collage, handwritten texts, and gestural work. His self-aware and meta-textual short fiction challenges the limits of machine-based composition and his reception as a media-based poet. \u003cbr\u003e With media studies increasingly turning to \"media archaeology\" and the reading and study of antiquated, analogue-based modes of composition (as typified by the photocopier and the fax machine as well as the typewriter), Riddell is a perfect candidate for further appreciation and study by new generations of readers, authors, and scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ederek beaulieu\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five books of poetry, three volumes of conceptual fiction, and over 150 chapbooks. beaulieu teaches at the Alberta College of Art + Design and Mount Royal University. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLori Emerson\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She writes about and teaches electronic literature (especially digital poetry), experimental American and Canadian poetry, the history of computing, and media theory. She is co-editor, with Darren Wershler, of \u003ci\u003eThe Alphabet Game: A bpNichol Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (2007). \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJohn Riddell\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eCriss-Cross\u003c\/i\u003e (Coach House, 1977) and numerous other volumes of visual poetry and prose. An early editor of \u003ci\u003egrOnk\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGanglia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePhenomenon Press\u003c\/i\u003e, he has published in magazines like \u003ci\u003eKontakte\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDescant\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGanglia\u003c\/i\u003e from the 1960s to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 164\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57334188572977,"sku":"9781554588282","price":38.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3486\/5969\/files\/xNzE7Yl1xW9781554588282.webp?v=1793911965","url":"https:\/\/www.welibooks.com\/products\/writing-surfaces-selected-fiction-of-john-riddell-paperback","provider":"Welibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}